As far as I'm aware, there is no way to mark surfaces on parts as "grainy", an effect most commonly known from 2x2 slope bricks. I think it would be good to have such thing, especially for being able to distinguish some possible clean and grainy variants (there are some iirc, but I might be wrong)

Hey there!

I'm Violet, otherwise known as vootcaboot or (sometimes) weedvampires. I currently manage a number of packs of models for Bricklink Stud.io on behalf of the Bionicle community, mainly involving fan-created models originally designed for 3d printing, but I was also the last to update a pack of official Lego models for Bionicle and other constraction themes known as the Biopack. However, the problem is the fact that, well... Stud.io is a mess! I know that LDraw and Lego CAD, in general, has a long history of being janky, but this makes it difficult to work with models... especially seeing as I am not a modeler, only someone who learned how to use PartDesigner and had enough patience to do the painstaking work of aligning connections and making sure phantom collisions don't happen. So, in my introduction to this forum, I'd like to ask a couple of questions.

1. Are there any better alternatives to creating parts over PartDesigner? Namely, PartDesigner has issues when processing models of very high face counts, and it seems to attempt to apply some sort of geometry modifier on import, which when combined with what I presume to be similar modifiers passed upon starting a photorealistic render, results in models looking... iffy, to say the least.
   
2. Is there a relatively simple way for modelers in Blender, Fusion360, and other programs who are accustomed to making parts for 3d printing to apply primitives to things like axles, studs, and pin holes? A big problem when working with these models is the lack of consistency between the connection points of parts, so this would definitely be a huge step forward if a (relatively) painless solution exists.
   
3. Since a majority of our community uses Stud.io for building and rendering their Bionicle MOCs due to ease of use, is there anything you have learned about Stud.io that we may have not?
   

Hi,
quick question:
What is more reasonable for large model?
To change the scale factor or to zoom out with the camera?

Until now I have always scaled, but somehow Lpub3D ticks around when I use the "Look at" option.
(Model is displayed very small)
Could this be due to the scaling of the model?

Regards Johann

P.S.: I am using LPub3D 2.4.3r0 mobile version

In your opinion it would not be better to omit the presence of the groove in all the tiles and indicate only the possible lack.

I know that it is contrary to the principle of expressing what is there and not what is missing, but in this case it seems to me that we would have more advantages than anything else:
  in alphabetical order the first part of a tile family would be the neutral version (as is now the case for 1x3 tiles, 1x6 tiles and 1x8 tiles, but not for 1x2 tiles, 1x4 tiles and 2x2 tiles)
  the descriptions would be shorter and more homogeneous (already now, most of the 1x4 and 2x2 patterned tiles do not give indications of the presence or absence of the groove)
  the new parts are already with the groove, only very first versions were devoid of it (and there are many more patterned or stickered parts based on the grooved versions than on the others).

May I get some feedback on the part?
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c.../47311.dat

The primitives reference needs to be updated. This is a manual process which I have little time to do. If someone knowledgeable wants to put together an updated reference, I can format it for the site.

Hi there,

there are some lines in a stud.io file that I don't understand.

Example for line-3-triangle:

Hi
Have looked in my folders (comp.) - would like a complete list of color codes - like bricks (mklist) - is it possible?
Thanks in advance   

Dan

79194 Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Bar Handle on Long Stem

It seems that the model of this part does not exist (only with the short version). Could someone work on this one if possible? Thanks

I got a stud.io file with all inlined parts, size is about 7 MB. Opening this file in Stud.io is nearly impossible as I'm waiting now for about 45 minutes and still having "parsing a file 0%", while LDCad opens it in a few seconds.   Unfortunately, all colors are Stud.io/Bricklink-colors, so they are "MISSING" in LDCad.

Is there an easy way in LDCad to activate an import-filter replacing all Stud.io/Bricklink-colors by LDraw-colors on load or is there a small script to replace colors after loading? If so: does such a script exist already? As far as I understand, especially the -1 and -2 colors need special attention as they map to 16/24 in the LDraw universe.

Thanks for any hint, I'm willing to implement the converting script if this is the way to go and not done yet.